His musical and dance performances are dramatic and intense expressions of blooming Passions.

Brazilian- Portuguese Ricardo was born in São Paulo and graduated with a BMus at UNICAMP, one of the most prestigious Universities in Brazil, in the class of Dr Helena Jank. He founded the Ars Nova Ensemble, performing in the major music halls in that Country, and also took part in several other groups, such as Apheti and Sagitta Trium.

In 1993 Ricardo was awarded a scholarship from The British Council which enabled him to study post-graduation at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Whilst there he studied with Chris Kite and Neal Peres Da Costa (Harpsichord), and Madeleine Inglehearn (Early Dance).

Ricardo had his harpsichord solo début during the 1994 Edinburgh Festival, playing the complete works for harpsichord by Pancrace Royer in the World famous 1769 Taskin harpsichord, at St Cecilia's Hall, The Russell Collection of Early Keyboard Instruments.

After returning to his Home-Country Brazil, Ricardo joined the Orquestra de Câmara da UNESP as a harpsichordist and co-director. In 1995 he founded the Companhia Mercúrius de Música e Danças Barrocas, a pioneer work as the first and unique group to specialise in the performance and research of Baroque Dances in Brazil. Ricardo has often given master-classes, summer courses and lectures in Baroque Dance.

At the moment Ricardo divides his time between dancing, playing, managing Mercurius and researching the French stage dances from the 17th and 18th Centuries, pursuing a PhD degree at the University of Hull where he investigates the "Expression of Passions in Baroque Dance", tracing a parallel between music & choreographic figures to philosophy and rhetorics, under the supervision of Dr Caroline Wood and Dr Graham Sadler.